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By Ibraheem Hamza Muhammad
An aspirant who is claiming to have won primary election has gone to court seeking for the mandate given him by the electorates in Nasarawa State.
The Politician, Honourable Ayose Mohammed Mu’azu who is suing the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the Adamu Mohammed Omadefu.
The case will be heard on Wednesday August 3rd, 2022 with case file number FHC/LAF/CS/16/2022.
The contention is over who is the rightful candidate of the APC to contest in the general election to represent Keana state constituency in Nasarawa State House of Assembly, (NSHA).
According to the APC result sheet for the 2022 NSHA primary election signed by Chairman electoral committee and signed by Barrister Mustapha Iliyasu and Secretary Cecilia Itodo when the election was conducted on 28 May 2022 in Keana.
The result sheet shows that Atose Mohammed Muazu who is the plaintiff has polled 46 votes out 50 delegates.
The other aspirants didn’t score a single vote, they are: Adamu Mohammed Omadefu, Onawani Ibrahim Abubakar and Francis Shinku Akie.
The four votes that were invalid was due to disparity in their names on their names on the list and on their means of identification card.
Honourable Atose Muazu said that he contested the primary election conducted for Keana Constituency of the NSHA held on 27th day of May , 2022. The said primary election was peaceful and same was duly supervised by the 1st defendant.
According to him “At the end of the said primary election, I scored 46 vites to emerge winner of the primary election and defeated the other three aspirants including the 3rd defendant.
“I am in court as a law abiding citizen and member of the AOC seeking to be declared the lawful winner, who has been allegedly illegally replaced by the APC.
Atose Muazu us seeking an injunction prohibiting the 3rd defendant (Omadefu) from holding himself out as the candidate of the APC for Keana legislative constituency for the NSHA in the forthcoming General election scheduled for March, 2023.
